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From: obryan@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Mark O'Bryan)
Subject: Re: FORMDIAL.PRG
Message-ID: <1990Feb3.071110.13656@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Organization: Western Michigan University
References: <6157@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <20359@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 90 07:11:10 GMT

In article <20359@watdragon.waterloo.edu> swklassen@tiger.waterloo.edu (Steven W. Klassen) writes:
>
> I found that FORMDIAL did indeed increase the speed that dialog boxes were
> drawn at.  (A performance benchmark program told me this.)  I also 

Nope, not actually the dialog box draws.  They're done at the same speed as
usual.  It's the *redraws* when the dialog boxes are closed that get sped
up.  By a lot.

I scratched my head over this a while myself, since QuickIndex indicated
that dialogs were running almost TWICE as fast.  I watched REAL close, but
couldn't see any difference at all in how fast they were drawn.  Then I
noticed how fast they were closed.  Bingo.  See my previous posting for
other comments.

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Mark T. O'Bryan                 Internet:  obryan@gumby.cc.wmich.edu
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI  49008